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# Senior Software Engineer, Storage

- **Company:** Airbnb
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Databases, Database Queries, Database Storage Structures, Software Debugging, Distributed Data Store, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Database Engines, Indexer
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/ofah6j7l6i

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering, including significant hands-on work on a database storage layer or query execution engine.
 * Strong SQL skills, plus an understanding of how queries are planned, optimized, and executed at the engine level.
 * Deep understanding of storage engine internals (e.g., B-tree/LSM, compaction, indexing, I/O) and/or query processing (e.g., planning, optimization, execution operators).
 * Experience with distributed databases (replication, consensus, transactions) is a strong plus, and familiarity with NewSQL systems like TiDB is a bonus.
 * Ability to own and dive deeply into a complex database codebase, ideally an open-source one. Upstream contributions are a plus.
 * Experience analyzing and debugging high-severity production incidents, especially performance and latency problems.
 * Writes clean, testable, maintainable code.
 * Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote working environment.
 * Strong ownership and a consistent track record of delivery.